Although the event occured this month when the Taurid meteor
shower is ongoing, NASA's Bill Cooke said the meteor was not part
of the Taurids and was more likely a chunk of an asteroid.

The meteor most likely entered Earth's atmosphere above western
West Virginia and then traveled eastward across the sky,
eventually impacting between Webster County and Randolph County
in West Virginia.

The AMS predicted this path and impact site from the reports it
received. The projection is shown below.

There were other reports Monday night of a bright meteor-like
light in the skies over Chicago. At first, AMS and NASA said the
object was moving too slow to be a metoer and was likely a piece
of space junk.

However, Cooke recently told Business Insider that neither NASA's
Orbital Debris Program Office or the Department of Defense's
Space Command reported debris entering earth's atmosphere over
Chicago at the time of the sighting.